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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Michigan to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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